I downloaded my first few MP3's in 1998. I was either on 33.6 or 56k. It took like an hour. So the problem was clearly limited to university networks. The exis

I downloaded my first few MP3's in 1998. I was either on 33.6 or 56k. It took like an hour. So the problem was clearly limited to university networks. The existence of MP3's doesn't indicate the advent of modern "piracy." No, that began a couple years later of course when everybody began getting cable modems. And napster was written.